What did you learn today?

[Groove Doctor]

TIL

'You Are Not So Smart': Why We Can't Tell Good Wine From Bad - The Atlantic

 

[zon6c-f]

Copped it sweet:

They're asking, "Is Your Gut Making You Depressed or Anxious?"

Sounds like a pro biotics advocacy

 

[farshore]

Copped it sweet:

They're asking, "Is Your Gut Making You Depressed or Anxious?"

Sounds like a pro biotics advocacy

Maybe ...

maybe not

 

[Spidey2112]

I learned no matter how hard I try to achieve happiness, there will always be someone standing in my way...

... if they stand there long enough, I break out the really bad jokes, until they disintegrate.

 

[the harp unstrung]

When left Completely to my own devices, I will watch the first inning of “Baseball” by Ken Burns...mostly between October and March.

 

[Spidey2112]

When left Completely to my own devices, I will watch the first inning of “Baseball” by Ken Burns...mostly between October and March.

Probably awesome too, I bet.

(Go Cubs!... next year.)

 

[Tom Bomb]

In the Middle Ages, the plague rat was just one species, out of the two-hundred odd different flea-taxis, then unwittingly ferrying the diabolical Black Death throughout the known world. Invalid Link Removed

 

[Spidey2112]

"The complaints of the few, outweigh the entertainment of the masses."

Confunkalicious, circa 2018

 

[Tom Bomb]

"For decades the American Academy of Pediatrics discouraged parents from spanking — Invalid Link Removed … Now, it says we should avoid it altogether because it's not effective, and can even be harmful in the longer term."

 

[Tom Bomb]

Invalid Link Removed — this earthy blemish is nineteen miles across, under half a mile of ice, and may've been there for upwards of twelve thousand years. Whatever made it was one kilometer wide and it was made of iron.

 

[shadowtippy]

Invalid Link Removed — this earthy blemish is nineteen miles across, under half a mile of ice, and may've been there for upwards of twelve thousand years. Whatever made it was one kilometer wide and it was made of iron.

I was home with my wife at the time. She will swear to it.

 

[HeavyDuty]

"For decades the American Academy of Pediatrics discouraged parents from spanking — Invalid Link Removed … Now, it says we should avoid it altogether because it's not effective, and can even be harmful in the longer term."

I dated a woman who was a section manager at the AAP, and after meeting many of their staffers I wouldn’t take their advice on how to boil an egg.

 

[Tom Bomb]

From a link at the program's page,

The Paediatric & Child Health Division of The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) has developed this position statement for the purpose of protecting children. We recognise that:

• Every child needs discipline. Discipline is an essential part of good parenting.

• While physical punishment (such as hitting or smacking a child) may appear effective in the short term, it can have adverse consequences in the long term for the child’s health, particularly their behaviour and emotional wellbeing.

• There are much more effective and positive ways to provide discipline.

• A child – the most vulnerable and dependent member of our society –
is still the only person in Australia whom it is legal to hit.

• The circumstances when physical punishment is likely to be used place a child at risk of an unintended escalation to serious physical assault.

The RACP believes that physical punishment is an outdated practice. It fails to recognise the human rights of the child. The purpose of this paper is to clarify paediatricians’ position on physical punishment of children, to contribute topublic discussion, and to promote positive non-violent discipline which will provide each Australian child with the best opportunity for future health and well-being.

 

[PWRL]

Invalid Link Removed — this earthy blemish is nineteen miles across, under half a mile of ice, and may've been there for upwards of twelve thousand years. Whatever made it was one kilometer wide and it was made of iron.

I heard about this yesterday, fascinating stuff.

 

[PWRL]

I learned this, which I think is kind of cool:

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A new map reveals the remnants of ancient continents lurking beneath Antarctica's ice - Strange Sounds

 

[Groove Doctor]

After WW1, 400,000 US troops returned with either Syphilis or Gonorrhoea.

Oh, and DIY invisible ink (at 18:35)

 

[knuckleduster]

GM contracted the work of American Racing wheels to produce Vector wheels (made famous on the Dukes Of Hazzard, on the General Lee) for upper-tier G bodies from about 78 to 84. Early on, they bore the American Racing logo on them, but had a different lug spacing. After 84, GM changed up the mold a little (made the fins shallower, for one) and put them on some of their station wagons.

 

[Tom Bomb]

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The plane works using a principle called electroaerodynamic, or ionic wind. If the right amount of voltage is applied when a current passes between a thin and thick electrode, the air between produces thrust – a wind.

 

[FilterFunk]

That I enjoy the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade more than ever. I don't know if it's an increased sense of nostalgia, an increased sense of whimsy as I grow older, or both.

 

[Tom Bomb]

You've heard about The Princess and the Pea. Well. In this latest retelling, published recently, the pea is something similarly sized, buried in the brain, and recently dubbed the endorestiform nucleus. And the princess, in this case, is a cartoonish cat. I just knew there was something lurking in there. It's been keeping me up at night. I could feel a pulse.

Brain-mapping boffins are now annotating this fractured fairy tale. And they note, with a degree of certainty, that this particular pea may be the previously undiscovered culprit responsible for all the finely tuned fine motor skills of the musician and the brain surgeon, to name but two practical princelings.

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